Empower

The freedom movement welcomes any person who believes in economic choice and envisions a future where today’s children have a better quality of life than the generation before. Economic freedom benefits individuals and families in all communities, not just the privileged few. Less government means more power for people to control their own destiny, to think freely and make economic choices on their own terms. Our community believes in empowerment over entitlement; and character over color. We believe that knowledge is power, and that personal independence comes with great personal responsibility. The FreedomWorks Outreach Program aims to educate individuals of all races, colors and creeds on issues of economic empowerment and the many benefits that free enterprise can have on families and communities across America. Because the black community has suffered from overreliance on government, there is a special need for our segment of society to seek an alternative route to social advancement. It’s time to get involved and make a positive difference in our communities, because no one from the government is going to do it for us. Let’s stand up to the abusers of racial politics, and fight the echo chamber of the liberal establishment that drives a wedge between minorities and the limited-government movement.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In response to the report that the U.S. economy added 263,000 jobs in the month of April, 2019, John Tamny, FreedomWorks Director of the Center for Economic Freedom (CEF), commented:

America’s experiment in self-government is founded upon republican ideals of self-government. James Madison and the rest of the founding fathers fought hard to establish a republican form of government rooted in the principles of federalism. The electoral college is a key component of the system they crafted, which carries through to today. Big government folks have conveniently forgotten this in the past two years.

When I served as president of the NAACP branch in Garland, Texas in the 1980s, we believed in the dignity of work. We fought for equal treatment under the law, and quality education for our children. We called on society to judge our neighbors by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.

Congress created the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to reduce food insecurity among impoverished Americans. At the same time, Congress recognized that welfare programs must foster self-sufficiency. The Trump administration is looking for innovative solutions that improve both goals.

As technology continues to digitize our daily lives, the urban-rural divide in Internet usage reaps public attention. Despite a decade of improvements between 2007 and 2017, including the near doubling of rural broadband usage from 35% to 63%, rural Americans are still 10% less likely than average to use the Internet. Much of this is attributable to low population density, which makes rural towns less appealing to Internet service providers (ISPs) than customer-packed urban centers. Broadband cable installation over the bare Midwestern and mountainous western expanses is expensive and inefficient. The cable infrastructure for some rural areas is simply too costly.

In 1964, singer Bob Dylan released the song "The Times They a-Changing" at a time in our history when it was necessary for our nation to produce a personality that could speak to the conscience of a racially divided and emotionally troubled America. Dr. Martin Luther King became that voice for many who could not access opportunity, especially in the Southern United Sates. In 1964, the times in virtually all corners of this country were vastly different for people of color and women than they are today and definitions of terms like equal opportunity had a dramatically different meaning than progressive liberals place on it in 2016.